London, Pretr. Greenland’s extreme ice melt has increased the risk of global flooding. According to a study, 3.5 trillion (trillion) tons of ice has melted from the Greenland ice sheet in the past decade, raising the world sea level by one centimeter.
The international team of researchers used measurements from the European Space Agency’s (ESA) CryoSat-2 satellite mission to estimate changes in surface height over time, according to the study published Monday in the journal Nature Communications.
Study co-author Lynn Gilbert of the University College London (UCL) in the UK said: “The observations show that Greenland is witnessing a continuous increase in extreme snowmelt, which is a global problem. Monitoring from space enables us to repeatedly cover the whole of Greenland (and almost all of Antarctica), which cannot be done by the team at ground level.’
Researchers found that over the past four decades, Greenland’s ice melt has increased water flow by 21 percent. Between 2011 and 2020, increased meltwater flow from Greenland raised global sea levels by one centimeter, increasing the risk of flooding around the world. Marine ecosystems in the Arctic Ocean have also been disrupted.
